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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Hoping History will repeat itself: think 1998

2.1 million reasons why Dems love the GOP’s anti-Obama pushBy Steve BenenIn 1998, congressional Republicans, filled with irrational rage towards a Democratic president in his sixth year, launched an impeachment crusade the American mainstream saw as wildly unnecessary. The electoral results were striking: Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party had the best sixth-year midterms of any administration in a century.